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Binary Tree and Mimecast Partner to Provide Unified Solutions for Customers Migrating to Microsoft Exchange 2010 and Office 365
March 2012 by Marc Jacob
Binary Tree, a provider of software solutions for migrating to Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Office 365, announced that it has formed a long-term strategic partnership with Mimecast, the leading supplier of cloud-based email archiving, continuity and security for Microsoft Exchange and Office 365. Under the agreement, the two companies will deliver a unified solution for enabling legacy Exchange customers to intelligently manage and automate the migration of their email data to a new Exchange platform and to Mimecast’s cloud-based archive.
Mimecast’s Great Email Migration Report, which surveyed 500 IT/email system decision makers on their plans for email migration, found over half (57%) of companies planned to make their migration in the next year, with 62% of these companies planning to move to Microsoft Exchange 2010 on-premise. Additionally, the average mid-sized business plans to migrate over 100GB of data from one email system to another. These migrations will see approximately 6.36 petabytes of data – the equivalent of 127.2 million four-drawer filing cabinets of text – transported from one location to another in the next 12-18 months.
The partnership between Mimecast and Binary Tree will integrate the two companies’ existing solutions to help businesses simplify the transition from older versions of Microsoft Exchange to newer on-premise, cloud or hybrid environments. Additionally, this new unified solution will ensure all email data is migrated securely and with minimal risk and downtime. The two organisations will also encourage channel pull-through by offering existing partners a migration readiness kit, as well as conducting joint recruitment events around the world to support Microsoft’s mission to migrate customers to the latest versions of Exchange and Office 365.
Mimecast and Binary Tree will be showcasing their joint solutions in the Mimecast booth (#300), and in a vendor session titled “Think EaaSy™ - Make Exchange Migrations EaaSy,” at DevConnections, from 26th to 29th March, in Las Vegas.
